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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Mostly offensive rather than entertaining, mixing McBride-Franco style stoner comedy with medieval adventure just did not work at all.
Or it could have, if 80% of the jokes weren't flat and vulgar (I read "dirty-joke blooper reel" somewhere and this is probably the best summary).
It still made me laugh a few times, but the end result was quite messy.
If you look up "Oscar-bait musician biopic" in the dictionary, you might stumple upon this poster.
BUT Dylan's story is interesting + the script tight enough + Mangold being a great jack of all trades director are all factors that make this a pretty good one.
Also have to say the acting is great all around, Chalamet, Norton, Fanning and Barbaro (out of the two ladies I would have rather nominated the former, haven't seen such a mature performance from her before), even Boyd Holbrook nailed it as Johnny Cash.
I feel really bad for giving it 4.5 stars, but I think it truly is an excellent movie, the dark hole of black comedies.
The closest example I can name for what I've experienced while watching The Coffee Table was The Square (2017) with the main differences being that this movie dives into it right from the beginning with its cca. 85-minute runtime so I felt like shit from scene one (and it is also much-much meaner).
This is something…